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“In the Kingdom of God, there are no unemployed people,” Pope Francis said Sunday, since “everyone is called upon to do his part.”

A Florida woman is accused of providing a false unemployment report while bagging a six figure salary to obtain government benefits such as food stamps and Medicaid.

A think tank in Chicago, Illinois is pleading for more immigration to fill jobs in the cities hospitality industry while African-American youth in the inner-city remains higher than most other cities.

The employment rate has hit a record high of 75.1 per cent and unemployment fallen to a 42-year-low of 4.4 per cent, defying warnings that the Brexit vote would throw 500,000 people out of work.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average achieved yet another milestone Wednesday, hitting 22,000 for the first time in history.

President Donald Trump declared that “America is on the verge of a golden age for small business” to a room full of entrepreneurs and legislators at the White House on Tuesday, using a 16-year low in unemployment, 2.6 percent GDP, and a record stock market high as evidence.

Data published by the Labor Department on Thursday revealed that the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits is on the decline.

Nationwide mandatory E-Verify, which would weed out the vast majority of American businesses hiring illegal aliens, may be coming sooner than expected.

California’s unemployment rate fell to 4.8 percent in April, the lowest rate since the top of the dot-com bubble in December 2001.

As the whole of the old media establishment talks daily about unproven claims that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians to get elected, a bigger story has quietly been unfolding, and now it can be reported that in this new age of Trump, the unemployment numbers have fallen to a 28-year low.

New labour market statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) shows the number of people working in Britain who were born abroad now stands at 5.64 million – greater than the entire population of Scotland.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani ran into an unexpectedly large and angry protest over Iran’s slow economy during a campaign stop on Sunday, producing a viral video eagerly promoted by the supporters of rival candidates.

Job growth has bounced back from a weirdly weak March.

The quarterly CSUF 2017 Economic Forecast predicts that Orange County may already be at full employment, while Los Angeles and San Bernardino Counties are approaching full employment.

The number of people out-of-work collecting unemployment dropped to a 7-year low in April, according to new data from the Department of Labor.

Saudi Arabia’s labor minister issued an order on Thursday to restrict employment in shopping malls to Saudi nationals, who currently make up only one in five staff in the retail sector.

A new study shows that joblessness weighs on men more than women. Men’s mental health starts to deteriorate as soon as they exit the labor market. Women are apparently made of sterner stuff: their mental health only worsen’s after they’ve been out of the labor force for a period of time.

Here is some promising news about the nation’s much-ignored drug disaster: On Tuesday, President Donald Trump confirmed that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie will head up a national task force to combat the deadly opioid epidemic.

Jobless claims by U.S. workers posted their biggest decline in nearly two years, a further indication of the strengthening of the U.S. labor market.

The Department of Veterans Affairs continues to add new jobs available at the agency following its temporary exemption from President Donald Trump’s federal hiring freeze.

Pope Francis waded into recent Italian labor disputes Wednesday, declaring that it is a “very grave sin” to eliminate jobs by shutting down factories or closing companies for purely economic reasons.

I thought the grim lesson of the burger-flipping robot was so obvious it barely deserved comment, but comment I did… and soon discovered plenty of people do need this lesson explained to them.

February saw employers adding jobs at a jaw-dropping pace.

Unemployment rates dropped during the recession in states which adopted the E-Verify program to screen illegal aliens from jobs, says a study conducted by the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

Despite its good intentions, minimum wage legislation overwhelmingly harms many people with disabilities, condemning them to a life of unemployment, according to a recent report.

The National Bureau of Economic Research published a paper on Monday showing how unemployment pushes many American men and women towards deadly drug addictions.

Medicaid is gently tugging tens of thousands of healthy Americans to their early deaths each year, according to analysts who are trying to explain the massive and unprecedented spike in deaths among middle-aged Americans in post-industrial America.

During his confirmation hearing on Thursday, Treasury Secretary nominee Steven Mnuchin said the unemployment rate reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics does not capture the reality of the conditions facing American workers.

Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance added some fuel to the discussion of jobs threatened by computers with its year-end announcement that nearly a third of its staff would be replaced by an artificial intelligence, eliminating 34 jobs and saving almost $2 million per year.

Finland is launching a “radical experiment” to see if a simple monthly payment can replace the nation’s ever-expanding tangle of welfare programs.

Fewer than three per cent of the 1.2 million migrants who came to Germany in the last two years have found employment, newly released government figures show.

Businesses should “work together in common cause” to spread a “unified message” of welcome and acceptance to refugees and migrants, an organisation co-founded by Richard Branson has said. Refugees and migrants have been dubbed an “opportunity for humanity” in a

The number of children from immigrant backgrounds taking Germany’s university entrance exams has doubled in just five years. According to the federal government’s Commission for Immigration, Refugees, and Integration, 17 percent of children from immigrant backgrounds completed the Abitur exam,

With President Obama, Democrats and their media fellow travelers having failed to win the hearts and minds of voters, they are now trying to build a legacy on the big lie: “The president is handing his successor an economy that’s now the envy of the world.”

Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute, author of the book Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Monday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss the enormous social crisis posed by men dropping out of the workforce and its political ramifications.

“Today’s lackluster job numbers signal that our sputtering economy has reached an unacceptable new normal,” stated Patrice Lee, the spokeswoman for Generation Opportunity, a “free-thinking, liberty-loving” nonpartisan organization for young people.